The value of victory in Pindar's odes
Subtitle: gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet
By: by Hanna Boeke
Series: Mnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava -- v. 285; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava -- 285
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9789004158481
Subjects: Pindar -- Criticism and interpretation; Cosmology, Ancient, in literature; Praise in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and indexes
Table of contents: title: Gnomai as a source of cosmological reflection; title: The nature of gnomai according to modern scholarship; title: Ancient thinking on gnomai; title: The "true point" of gnomai; title: The gnomic expression of cosmology in Pindar; title: Definitions and assumptions; title: The elemental forces : fate, God, nature and man; title: The human condition; title: Man in society; title: Cosmology in action : an analysis of selected odes; title: Olympian 12 : an immigrant and his adopted city; title: Isthmian 4 : creating for an ill-favoured victor; title: Olympian 13 : praising an ambitious family; title: The poet as mediator of cosmology; title: Isthmian 4 : the poet modifies a cosmological premise; title: Olympian 13 : the poet demonstrates cosmological principles; title: Cosmology and the poet in short odes; title: Olympian 9 and Nemean 3 : the poet assumes different attitudes to a central cosmological tenet